Radeon 9550 O/C?

[paradigm]

Yeah, old card, but just picked one up cheap to use in a spare PC, and thought i'd give it a quick overclock (as I do with all my hardware) to see what it can do.

Its on cat 3.6 based Omega Drivers, and currently ATiTool'ing itself to "find max core". Its default core/mem is 250/200, but its still working away currently at 385MHz Core, which seems high to me

Its a long shot, but can anyone shed some light on the max overclocks they have had out of a 9550? ta!

 

[Mul]

Radeon 9550's are just speedbinned 9600 series cards which have stock core clocks of anywhere between 350 and 500mhz. Keep going.

Mul

 

[paradigm]

Its at 486MHz now and still going (no errors for 38 mins).

 

[Mul]

Sometimes the Auto Clocking function overruns a bit. Might be worth stopping it at a certain point then running the artifact scanner at that speed to test it.

Mul

 

[paradigm]

It bummed out at 492MHz, but seems totally stable at 475MHz (or so a looping 3dmark demo shows so far), so i'll leave it at that and start on the mem.

 

[Hxc]

Can't the omegas softmod some 9550s to 9700s?

 

[Claire Drew]

You can go realy high on the core with no problems but the memory sucks on those cards. You can flash the cards with 9600 bios and that makes a real difference if you find the correct bios.

Although an old card you can clock the bits off it and is not back for a second system or back up.

 

[melbourne720]

Can't the omegas softmod some 9550s to 9700s?

That was 9500-> 9500 Pro or 9700 (something about L shaped memory), back in the day